Tillandsia fasciculata Sw.

Taxonomic Change:

• Lectotype designated: S(-Sw).; isolectotype designated: P: Jamaica. Swartz s.n. —See Cedeno-Maldonado 2005 p. 219

Literature references:

Baensch & Baensch 1994: 201,255 Baker 1852: 74:4415 Betancur 2007: 71 Brom. J. Queensl.: 41(4):31 41(6):12,33,39 42(3):25 42(6):20 Bromtravels (Web) BSA (Web) Croat 1978: 236 Die Bromelie: 1998:87 FCBS (Web) Golinski 1997 Gomez et al. 2018: 50 Gouda 1987: 106 Isley III 1987: 55 J. Bromeliad Soc.: 57: 9: 10:20b,89b 16:6b 18:25 20:120 25:200 26:89,117 30:245 31:164 33:104b 56:174 57:9 58:219,232 : 60(4):139,140,143: 62(4):167: 64(3):206, 207 Lemaire 1846c: 5:432 Mak 1996: 15 Mendoza 2005: 68 Morales 1998, 2000: 141 Morales 2003b: 343 Morren Icons: kew 21-123*

Morren Icons: kew 1-171*: kew OV-185* New Plantsman: 2:177c NY Bot. Garden Oliva-Esteve & Steyermark 1987: 230 Oliva-Esteve 2002: 158 Rauh 1979c: pl.34 Rauh 1981, 1990: Abb. 62 , Farbb. 34 Richter 1962, 1978: 256 Roguenant 2001: 352 Röth & Weber 1991: 125 Seringer 2019: 101, 102* Shimizu & Takizawa 1998: 25,26,28,51 Shimizu 1992: 2 Smith & Downs 1977: 923*: 946,954: 949* Takizawa 1998 Tristram 2011a: 2011(1): 34 Tropicos U.S. Nat. Herb. Veliz 2010: 33* Williams 2006

Wilson 1977: 64

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Comments:

• Key to the Varieties of Tillandsia fasciculata from S&D
  
  1. Spikes rarely less than I dm long; floral bracts 35 mm long or longer.
  2. Floral bracts even or at most faintly nerved toward apex.
  3. Spikes strongly complanate.
  4. Spikes erect. var fasciculata
  4. Spikes nodding, secund. var pendulispica.
  3. Spikes but slightly complanate. var convexispica NOW fasciculata
  . 2. Floral bracts prominently nerved, beaked, drying dark. . var venosispica.
  1. Spikes, or at least their fertile portions, rarely over 1 dm long; floral bracts scarcely more than 25 mm long.
  5. Spikes clavate with long slender bracteate sterile bases. . var clavispica.
  5. Spikes short-stipitate or subsessile.
  6. Inflorescence ample.
  7. Floral bracts coriaceous, glabrous. var densispica
  7a. Floral bracts greenish white, petals white forma alba
  7. Floral bracts thin-coriaceous, somewhat lepidote. var floridana (NOW HYBRID)
  6. Inflorescence few-branched or simple.
  8. Spikes lax. var laxispica.
  8. Spikes dense; floral bracts strongly incurved or cucullate.
  9. Primary bracts ovate, the lower ones caudate or acuminate; spikes linear-
  lanceolate. . var uncispica
  9. Primary bracts suborbicular, apiculate; spikes ovate. var rotundata.( NOW SPECIES) —See Smith & Downs 1977
• Culture and use: Easily grown like an epiphyte in window on a bright and sunny place, or a dry place in greenhouse, demands little watering; very nice at bloom time, inflorescence and its coloration last a long time. —See Gouda 1987